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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

FOR SALE.-House and Lot, di-
mension 23Ox3O0 feet, also about an acre
lot in rear, Barn, Crib, and Stable erected
thereon. Situated on the telegraph road
a short distance west of Newark. Good
land and house. JOHN DoNNELL, sR.
Jan.-29-tf. Newark, Del
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19
NOTICE.

wlen baby was sick, We gave her CAstOria
Whom sho was a Child she cried for CastOriA,
Whom sho became Miss, she chung to CastOriA,
When she had Children, she gave them Castosia
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

LOST.-Between Cowantown and
Head of Chrstiana Church on Sunday,
Feb 10, striped horse blanket. Amy
information concerning it will be CRATE
fully receivek at this office or the store
at COwantown.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

WANTED.---$2,5OO at per cent.
First lien on farm property valued at
$4,000. Apply to S. M. DoNNELL,
Feb. 10 If Newark, Del.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

FOR RENT.-A large Store Room.
with S roomcd house attached. good
well of water, and new barn. Store do
ing Good Business. Situated on the
cross roads at Cowantown. Apply to
SAMUEL MAxwELL, or Gro. o. MAXWELL,
F12-2w* Cowantown, Md.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

FOR SALE.-55 Street car Horses,
will be sold by t. W. BYE, near Lewisville,
on Tuesday, Feb. %. He has sold more
than 200 of these horses since last March
and they have given general satisfaction.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

FOR RENT.--Store and dwelling
at Fair Hill. Good stand for live man
Feb. 10-3t* Address, HENRY HISS.
Fair HILL Md.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

FOR SALE.-A neat, room frame
house, in first class repair, good garden,
and pump on the porch, at bargain on
easy terms. Possession at any time, at
the East End of Newark, Del. Apply to
Fl2tf w. A. WooDRow.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

FOR SALE.-One hundred BUSH
els of Prime Cloverseed by j. t. FISHER,
Feb. 1874 W. Newark Depot.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19
Remnant Sale
this week

On a special coun-
ter we have it filled
with GOODS of all
kinds. You will like
ly find anything just
wanted and have it at
your own price.
Dress Goods SOC,
marked 25c; 15c Sat-
teens marked lOc; 70
LIE Satteens down to
Sc. Best Prints 4 and
5 cents.
Next week we
invite you to our
New Grocery De-
partnlent just fit
ted out.
ARMSTRONGS
Caskey Hall.
FOR SALE. - Nine Cows with
calves by their side. Good stock. Three
months credit if necessary. Apply to
Nov6tf 5. DEPUTY, Newark, Del.
FOR SALE.-A CORNER STORE
and dwelling at Newark, Del. Desirable
Main street location, with stable and
necessary outbuildings in excellent con-
dtion. Apply to
S. B. WRIGHT,
febl3tf Newark, Del.
AT PRIVATE SALE.-One
Yoke of Oxen, years old, good workers.
JOHN J. MATTHIAS,
Jan.20-tf Post Office, Strickersville,
FOR SALE.-A neat, room frame
house, in first class repair, good garden,
and pump on the porch, at a bargain ON
easy terms. Possession at any time, at
the East End of Newark, Del. Apply to
Fl2tf. w. A. WOODROW.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19


You can buy a good calico dress
at and 5 cents, on the Remnant
counter, Rankin Armstrong, Cas-
key Hall. Remnants of shifting,
prints and muslins are / less on the
remnant counter. Rankin Arm
strong, Caskey Hall. Young gen
tlemen will please notice the East
Window for thenewest goods in soft
hats. Rankin Armstrong, Caskey
Hall.
Choice goods for Lent-Mack-
erel, Bloaters, Pure Prepared Cod
fish, new canned Salmon, Lobster
and Sardines, at lowest prices at
Grifiith's Glass Front.
Choice Apples, Messina and
Florida Oranges, choice Lemons,
best French Prunes, at
Griffith's Glass Front.
-Coffees all Fresh Roasted, best
Old Gov. Java, Maracaibo, Blended
and Rio Coffees-not in packages.
You will save money by buying
your goods at Grifith's Glass Front.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

Important.-Al persons afflicted with
rheumatism, neuralgia, sore throat, pains
in the back or limbs, sprains, bruises,
ETC., should know that Salvation Oil is
what they need. Price % cents.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR SALE.-A piano, very cheap.
Apply to Mr.. CHAs. II Holloway, West
End
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

One ofthe thin's that is all wrong is
the order of the celebrations ofthe we'd
ding-day. At present, the young couple
who celebrate the anniversaries of their
marriage, get the least valuable presents
when they need them most, and after
they reach a good old age, then comes
the golden wedding, perhaps, when they
need it least. 1t seems to me like mock
cry. Perhaps they who celebrate such
anniversaries with such purpose de-
serve nothing better than the present
order of affairs.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19
QUEER HEQGIES.
Some of Them Not so Very Queer
After All.

Every man has his queer notions, and
ofttimes they are greater source of com
fort to him than the public knows But
let man entertain original ideas, and
have the courage Of his convictions, that
man may expect to be looked upon rs II
queer genius.
If he once gets that reputation, people
listen-tO him in respect, shake their
heads at one another, and say among
themselves: Another Of his queer
IDEAS" and dismiss it as improbable and
unworthy Of attention. Tile world likes
To echo, parrot-like, the ideas and views
of their fl hers, for they require no
thinking. And, too, the world does not
like to be disturbed by queer fances or
new ideas. But often the ideas are not
so very queer after all, and he who adj
vances them is apt to take great comfort
in them
Now that have spoken my mind, the
public may endeavor to sit on my fancies
but rs shall be blissfuly ignorant of it,
l shall continue to be happy.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

"Gathered to his fathers" may be APP
propriately applied to the man whose
body has been dismembered by an ex-
plosion of dynamite.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19

On Market street, Camden, there hangs
a bona .fde business sign, reading thus
az. b. Grapevine, Painter"
Mr.. Grapevine prob IDLY confines him
self to one particular branch of his bus
iness-that Of painting the town red.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19
Public Sale
Personal Property !

Will be sold at Public Sale on the
premises opposite the West End Market,
near the Deer Park Hotel, in the town OF
Newark. Delaware. on
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-19
saturday, February 10, 1887.

The demand for houses is not so
great as last year.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
The Useful Maguey Plant.

AT Ozumba. where the road begins
to descend, we breakfasted very well
for so cents in rude shanty, on eggs,
rice, beefsteak, three or four other
kinds of meats and stews, sweets, pull
que, and black coffee, SAYS Charles
Dudley Warner, writing on Mexico in
Harper,S Magazine. The pulque is
best in these high regions. 1t is Wis
cous milk-white fluid, very wholesome
and sustaining, and would be a most
agreeable drink if it tasted good" In
fact it tastes, when it has been a few
days fermented, like mixture of but
termilk and sour cider But many
strangers BECOME very fond !of it.
The older it grows the more intoxicat-
ing it is. As the reader knows, proba-
bly,, it is drawn from the maguey
plant, called by US the century"
which grows on these elevations to a
great size, and is the cleanest-limbed
and most vigorous and wholesome
looking product of the region. When
1t natures it shoots up stout spike ten
or twenty feet high from the center,
bearing brilliant orange flowers.
When the plant is ready to tap the CEN
ter stalk is cut out, and the sap collects
in the cup thus formed. 1t is dipped
out or sucked out by tube, and when
first drawn is mild, cool, and refresh
ing. In about three days it begins to
ferment. AS it is often carried to
market on the backs of natives in pig
or goat skins it gets a disagreeable
flavor. The maguey plant has many
uses. 1t is eaten cut up and preserved
like melon rinds. Its long, tough fiber
is used very extensively in making ropes
and cordage. The end of each leaf
terminates in a hard, sharp, black
thorn. Break off this thorn and strip
down the fibers attached to it, and you
have a capital needle and thread for
coarse sewing. The muleteers use it
to mend their saddles and broken
harness straps. What encouragement
is there to industry when nature
furnishes in one plant drink, food,
needles and thread and rope for
lariats?
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
Plumb & Nelson's
HARDWARE DEPARTMENT.
NORTH SIDE OF RIVER.

Our experience last year with the
Detroit White Lead Co.'S" Mixed
Paints, warrants us in claiming them
the best in America. They are not
cheap goods but are put up to wear
and look we'll. We have the finest
assortment of colors made and from
our card you can select both for Out
side and Inside Decoration and buy
in quantities so there will be no waste.
When ready to paint this spring and
summer don't forget that there is a
real saving our way. Our Detroit
paint costs no more to put on (if as
much as) than cheap mixtures called
Paints; while we believe that one coat
of ours is as good as two Of any other
made For inside work you surely
ought to use nothing else. You know
that where jobs are small fully one
half the Painters time is taken up in
mixing and even then you don't get
as good colors as we can sell you.
We sold over One Thousand $1,000
gallons of these paints last season and
every gallon was sold under a guar
antee to wear longer and look better
than any White Lead and Oil you can
mix. Call at our Hardware Depart
ment North Side of the River and
get color card and we will tell you
who bought these goods last year
We have reduced the price this season
to $3.50 gallon. At this price, if you
will put on a printing coat of Oil,
Ochre and little White Lead, and
the second coat of our Detroit" colors
you will get much better as well as
a cheaper job than when the painter
furnishes the material. He as rule,
when working by the job always
makes mixture of poor White Lead,
Oil and Whiting because you usually
want the work done at the lowest
price and ask different parties to
compete 1t costs money to buy good
stock and if you want the best work
you had better buy the paint yourself.
Any painter will tell you this though
if you are after a cheap job he must
use cheap materials or get left.
Everything that belongs to Paint,
Varnish, Oil and Brush stock besides
lots of novelties for house decorations
not usually found) we have large
assortment of and make uniformly
lower prices than our neighbors in the
same business. "Alabastine" the only
perfect wall finish at Soc a 5 ID. pkg.
of any color. Genuine Red Seal or
Half Moon" ST. Louis White Lead
at &c. ID. A poor grade at Sc, and
a good one at &c. For any kind of
Builders Hardware, Shelf Hardware,
House Trimming goods or garden
Tools you can't do better than come
to us. Very Respectfully,
PLUMB q NELSON.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
The Cross-Eyed Clerk.

During the late Christmas holidays
large firm Unemployed as an as
sistant clerk young man who was ex-
ceedingly cross-eyed.
The especial duty assigned to him
was to act as Waterman, and
prevent the peculation of all sorts Of
small fancy articles that were lying
about the counters for exhibition at
that time.
One day half-grown boy came into
the store, and after looking around,
pricing first one thing and another,
among which were some very nice
socks, he finally started to go out of
the door.
AT this moment the new clerk
touched him on the shoulder, and in
viting him to come to the back part of
the store, said to him, politely, "Oblige
you have in your back pocket"
How do you know | have any
socks in my back pocketP" demanded
the boy, in a bold tone.
Il saw you put them there" said the
clerk, very gently.
The boy looked up into the young
mans face IN utter amazement. Are
you looking at me now?" he asked,
earnestly. "Do you see me this very
minuteP" he asked still more earnestly.
''Of course l do" replied the clerk.
Good Lord mister" cried the boy,
with blanching face; 'here's your
SOckS.' And with bound he was out
the back door, over the fence, and
away, having learned lesson con-
corning all-seeing eyes which it is to
be hoped he may never forget.-L1cy
Underwood Nc Cam, in Harper's.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

The credulity of people was never bet
ter exemplifed than in the case of the
so called Midland Railroad which is to
run anywhere and everywhere that aid Is
promised. The road is not backed by
money enough to pay for preliminary
survey of its line and the places to which
it is to run are raising funds to start out
a corps of engineers ito locate the line"
1t is the most laughable attempt at rail-
road construction ever palmed off on a
lot of willing dupes,
The railroad fever actually deprives
men of their reason. Parties are giving
aid and comfort to this wildcat scheme
who would refuse to buy yellow dog on
like security. They cannot explain who
are the responsible parties on whom the
movement mainly rests. 1t is the most
shadowy scheme which ever imposed on
the credulity of people insane on railroad
matters. And still aid is voted for the
initial step of a survey! OF course aid
must be voted to construct the road
Every dollar must come from the places
into which the road runs, but this tax
viii be light as it promises to run every
where.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
T,TCKX R0PP

The Champion reporter hearing of the recent
good fortune of our excellent colored townsman,
A. L. Robb, proceeded yesterday to hunt him up
and interview him. Mr.. Robb being mail car
rier, and on duty every day from morning until
night, it somewhat difficult to catch him at a
time with sufficient leisure to give account OF
his lottery windfall in detail.
After waiting patiently until towards evening
he was finally found at the post-Othce and In re-
ply TO inquiries gave the following account:
Ny name is A. l.. Robb. l have been in the EN-
plOy OF the government as mail carrier for sew
eral years past. About a year ago my attention
was called to the Louisiana State Lottery by read
ing an advertisement of it in the Atchis0n Dahl
Champion. L at once made up my mind that a.
soon as l could spare the money | would buy t
ticket. About eight months ago / invested one
dollar and drew blank and for seven consecu
tive months | invested one dollar month as reg
ularly as the month came, and up to the April
just prior to the April drawing ] concluded to e
one dollar more, and if lost that time ] wa
going TO quit. sent my dollar az before TO NJ A
Dauphln, New Orleans, La, and received tickle
number %, $50, and TO my inexpressible surpris,
and delight when the list of prizes came, l found
that my ticket %, 800 had drawn prize of SIS 900
| gave the ticket to c. n. Selp, agent of the Pa
cifc express company, for collection. He sent i
on TO New Orleans and In a few days afterwards
received the whole 5000 IN gold | took tn,
money, and after deductlng a small amount t
pay some bills due, deposited it in the Exchang
National Bank of this city, where it stands to m
credit to-day. Thus by an investment of 81, or i
QuenCe to-day In comfortable circumstances.
Is needless TO say that believe in The Louisian;
State Lottery as the poor mans friend.-AtchISOl
(has.) Champion May 3.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

The manufacturers of roller skates
would have succeeded in making for
tune had the rage continued. But there
was a sudden collapse and manufacturers
found themselves with large stocks on
hand for which there was no demand, and
with heavy investments which promised
no return. Skates which sold for Sc per
pair now bring only $50. While the
rage lasted, Boxwood, from which the
rollers are made, advanced from $50 to
$40 per ton. The rise demoralized all
lines of legitimate business which used
lockwood. Indeed the roller rink de-
moralized all forms of legitimate amuse-
ment, and lowered the standard of moral
ity in which it ran riot
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
Miss Alice Freeman. President of

Miss Alice Freeman, President of
Wellesley College, is young woman
whom most of her sex look upon as
born under a lucky star. With her
erect figure, dark hair, big brown eyes
and the glow in her cheeks, she looks
the embodiment of nineteen century
womanhood, conscious of strength,
rejoicing in new opportunities, and
eager to put her just realized powers
to the proof. Miss Freeman Is a gradu-
ate of the Michigan University. As a
woman her influence over women is
marked. Professors and students of
Wellesley alike are loyal to her, and
commencement visitors have odd ex-
periences now and then when they
seek the Presidents room of an even
ing and find a disconsolate graduate or
two sobbing away in the darkness over
a forgotten glove or bit of lace while
the unconscious owner is enjoying the
festivities of the hour somewhere out
side.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
SoNE mention of General BRACES nam.

SOME mention of General Bragg's name
has been made for the position on the
supreme court now vacant. 1t is prob
able that the unwritten law of geographic
distribution which obtains In the appoint-
ment of preme court judges will pre-
vent President Cleveland from consider
ing General Braggs name. If the aues-
ton of locality could be ignored, General
Bragg would stand in the front rank of
those to whom the position might be
offered without fear of lowering its Dig
nifty. No one will deny him pre-eminent
intellectual vigor and the profound con-
victions of the man are shown In the
aggressive force of his attacks upon what
he deems a fraud. He has never been
known to be misled by popular clamor or
to yield to it. He has ever been more in
tent upon the public good as a public
officer than he has been devoted to per-
sonal friendship. General Bragg is indie
pendent, too much so to be successful
politician. 1t is quality which could
find fitting expression on the bench.
There are few men in the United States
who are Bragg's superiors in legal acu-
men. or in native strength of mind. He
has become popular as a public speaker
without any of the arts of the orator,
owing his success solely to the lucidity
of his reasoning, the directness of his
language and the instant perception of
what was relevant to the point in discus
sion. Eliminate the bitterness of Bragg's
arguments in congress and the records of
the house will show no career guided
more strictly on the line of judicial fair
ness and honesty of purpose than his.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

THE Chicago Times makes an attempt
to soften the harshness of its attacks on
foreigners by explaining that its structures
were meant to apply only to the worst
class of immigrants and says that the
Scandinavian element of Wisconsin has
been pronounced in favor of the passage
- laws restricting undesirable immigra-
tion ano protecting the public domain
from aliens. Wnnareupon The Sentinel
pounces upon the statenthI anu "hiie
concad;no tho possibility IF craoi;+ to the
Scandinavians, demands that the credit be
given to the German Americans The
Sentinel has keen eye and it never mis-
ses an opportunity of alliance with the
popular side.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

DUNCAN G. Ross has revived the age OF
chivalry so far as tournaments are con-
cerned. Milwaukee has been enjoying a
backward glance at the age of knight
errantry on Sunday and Monday of this
week. Mounted sword contests between
Ross, Walsh and Count Orlowsky. The
Walsh, and the former won. On Monday
Orlowsky and Walsh tried conclusions
Walsh is Irish and the Count, German
and the audience divided on national
lines. Germany won and the German
portion of the audience went wild with
delight. Ross then defeated Orlowsky
but the latter claimed it was because
Ross had better horse.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

ADRIAN S. HEWITT is making so excel
lent a mayor of New York that one can
not help wishing the people would call
him to higher position and make him
chief executive of the nation instead of
executive of the chief city. He shows an
intimate knowledge of everything con-
nected with the public interests of the
city and when he confronts those who
profit by the abuses it is his purpose to
correct, they are confounded by the
thoroughness of his knowledge which
pierces their sophistry. Hewitt is too
able man to ever become President of
the United States.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

WHAT a contrast there is between Col.
Fred Grant and Robert Lincoln. The
former thinks he should trade upon his
fathers reputation and seems to believe
the public owes him living because he
is his fathers son. Robert Lincoln mod
estly assumes that all the honors thrust
upon him comes not from his own merit
and does not wish it So Had he chosen
to pose as the son of his martyr father, he
would have large political capital to work
on. But he wants to rely upon himself
and wants nothing which is not earned
by himself
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

SLIPPERY JIM" notorious tramp,
who has been guilty of many crimes,
among which was the shooting of the
Oconto marshal, was lately convicted of
assault and sentenced one year to states
prison, Notwithstanding that there was
abundant proof on which he could be
convicted for murderous intent. The
charge is made openly that the sheriff
secured jury favorable to Jim" and
that the prosecution carefully avoided
al testimony which would convict him.
The reason given is that Jim" had bribed
some of the officials on former occasion
TO permit him to escape, and threatened
to make an e.rpose if he was convicted of
any serious crime.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
What the Queen Wanted.

One of the first things Queen Victoria
did on hearing that William ". was
dead and that she had succeeded to
the throne was to call one of her
mothers ladies-in-waiting "Am
really queen?" asked the excited
princess. you are, indeed, madame, "
replied the ladyin-waiting. "And 1
can do what choose, by right?" con-
tinued Victoria. Certainly, your
majesty" Then get me cup of green
tea. Mamma never would let me have
it; now l mean to know what harm it
can do me-" And the young queen
drank three cups, had a violent fit OF
the shivers and has never liked tea
since.-Ihe Argonaatt.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

BUGS, not bed bugs, but reaches, red
ants and 'such like" are looked upon by
the law as harmless. A New York man
recently leased a house and was driven
out of it by bugs. He refused to pay rent
and was sued. In the vivid language OF
the defendant "the bugs crawled on the
dinner table, went to bed with the family
bit him and kept him awake nights and
he found them in his mashed potatoes
Still the court held that as the lease con-
tanned no clause against bugs the tenant
must pay the rent Bugs evidently are a
part of the realty unless barred out spe.
officially.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

The contest in Wisconsin seems to be
between Blaine and Sherman. 1t is in
deed sad commentary upon the repub-
ican party when it limits its choice to
these two men. Blaines record is bad
enough but it is immensely cleaner than
John Sherman's. Sherman is said to be
backed by Sawyer and this insures him
the state as Sawyer is an absolute dicta-
tor on party matters.